Uncle Jeremiah Wright was Right [Updated] (Update 2)
By Larry Johnson on April 29, 2008 at 1:42 PM in Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Boy did Reverend Wright call it correctly the other day. He indicated that Barack is the kind of guy who will say politically what needs to be said regardless of what he believes. Well, Barack proved him right. Two months ago he had never heard Wright say anything objectionable in 20 years. Now, apparently, in the last eight weeks, aliens have taken over the body and mind of Wright and he is saying things he has never said before. Right? Wrong.
What do you think?
UPDATE. Compare Obama’s statements today with what he said in the past. What has he learned about Wright in the last eight weeks that he did not know previously? Obama indicated he had heard Wright say objectionable things about the United States, but he could shrug it off during his Philly speech. I think we are seeing the emergence of a new illness–Obama Acquired Memory Loss (which is LMAO spelled backwards). He spent twenty years with Wright but really did not know that he held such objectionable views? He has spent approximately twenty years with William Ayers and barely knows the guy? He spent 18 years with Tony Rezko and barely knows him? Sure sounds like Obama does not know much of anything.
Barack says he didn’t “vet” his pastor. Really? Then why did Barack ask him not to appear in public with him when he announced for President (but was willing to pray with him backstage)? Here are the Barack flip flops:
Early last year, Obama admitted to Wright he might have to ‘publicly distance himself’ for political reasons. Mr. Wright, who has long prided himself on criticizing the establishment, said he knew that he may not play well in Mr. Obama’s audition for the ultimate establishment job. “If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.” [New York Times, 4/30/07]
Obama today: ‘I did not vet my pastor before I decided to run for the presidency.’ “During the course of me attending that church, I had not heard those kinds of statements being made or those kinds of views being promoted. And I did not vet my pastor before I decided to run for the presidency.” [Obama Press Conference, 4/29/08]
[HUH? Before declaring for President, Obama disinvited Wright from his official announcement, citing 'rough' sermons. "Mr. Wright said that in the phone conversation in which Mr. Obama disinvited him from a role in the announcement, Mr. Obama cited an article in Rolling Stone, 'The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.'…According to the pastor, Mr. Obama then told him, 'You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.'" [New York Times, 3/6/07]]
Sen. Obama today: ‘During the course of me attending that church, I had not heard those kinds of statements being made or those kinds of views being promoted.’ “But the insensitivity and the outrageousness of his statements and his performance and the question and answer period yesterday, I think, shocked me. It surprised me… During the course of me attending that church, I had not heard those kinds of statements being made or those kinds of views being promoted. And I did not vet my pastor before I decided to run for the presidency. I was a member of the church.” [Obama Press Conference, 4/29/08]
Sen. Obama in March: I heard Wright make ‘controversial’ statements about ‘American domestic and foreign policy.’ “Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely…” [Sen. Obama speech, 3/18/08]
Obama describes Wright as ‘the guy who counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader.’ “I got to give a special shout-out to my pastor. The guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader, not just in Chicago but all throughout the country. So please, everybody, give an extraordinary welcome to my pastor, Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr.” [Obama remarks, Hampton University, June 2007; video]
[UPDATE 2] PUHLEAZE!! Like the gendarme in Casablanca poor Senator Obama is shocked, shocked I tell you, by the outrageous things Wright said yesterday. You have got to be kidding me? Wright said worse, on video tape, on multiple occasions and Barack had no trouble ignoring those. So what did he say yesterday that Barack found so damn objectionable? How does this reconcile with Barack’s previous statements?
3/17/08 -Obama: ‘I think the caricature that is being painted of [Wright] is not accurate.’ “I think the caricature that is being painted of him is not accurate. And so part of what I’ll do tomorrow is to talk a little bit about how some of these issues are perceived from within the black church community, for example, which I think views this very differently.” [Obama press briefing, 3/17/08]
3/15/08 - Obama: ‘In fairness to him, this was sort of a greatest hits. They basically culled five or six sermons out of 30 years of preaching.’ The things he said and the way he said them I think are offensive. And I reject them, and they don’t reflect who I am or what I believe in. In fairness to him, this was sort of a greatest hits. They basically culled five or six sermons out of 30 years of preaching. That doesn’t excuse them, and I’ve said so very clearly, but that’s not the relationship I had with him. That’s not the relationship I had with the church, and if I had heard those kinds of statements being said, if I had been in church on those days, I would have objected fiercely to them, and I would have told him personally. [Chicago Tribune, 3/15/08
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We don’t think, we drank our Kool aide!
Obama has two pissed off preachers on his tail….and Neither will let up.
Obama would have us believe that he does NOT share the values and beliefs of ANY of the people he has chosen to befriend, such as Wright, Ayers, Auchi, Rezko, Dohrn, Khalidi, etc! How is this possible??? In short, IT ISN”T!!! He has made all the wrong decisions from the very start of his political career, from where to work, who to marry, which political arena to learn the ins and outs of politics in, who to befriend, and who to choose as campaign manager. Evelyn Pringle of scoop.com has written a 3-part series on Obama’s rise in Chicago politics, and she chastises the Dem party leaders for not doing their homework on this guy before hoisting him on the unsuspecting voting public. She states “any fifth grader” could have obtained the information she did! From her factual data, it is glaringly apparent that Obama was groomed by the corrupt Chicago political machine who had plans to take their game from the streets of Chicago to the Halls of the White House on the coattails of Obama, but the FBI intervened, and now Obama’s BFF Rezko and others are on trial for charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering. Blagojevich was actually the one they wanted to be president, but when he came under FBI suspicion, they pulled the number 2 pawn, Obama, off the bench to take his place. By the way, Obama says in the 18 years he knew Rezko, who helped him buy his mansion, he never had more than a passing acquaintanceship with the guy. The FBI, who was tailing Rezko, said in court that Obama either visited Rezko’s office or telephoned him almost every day!!! I guess we now know we cannot believe a word Obama says. Go to chicagotribune.com for gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Rezko trial. The Dem party leaders will never admit their mistake, but even if Obama gets the nomination, whether or not he becomes president is still up to the voters. We must go to the polls in November and vote for McCain if Obama becomes the nominee. To do otherwise would put this country in danger! Educate yourselves before you cast another vote!!!
Just a slight correction.. and off topic, but just trying for accuracy..
It would be pretty doubtful that Blagojevich could have ever been considered the first choice of anyone for Presidential material, let alone the Chicago machine. Blagojevich is loathed–loathed–by Mike Madigan the Dem speaker of the illinois house and a mover/shaker/pol.. It does not appear that Rich Daley cares for B either as B will not give him his casino that he desperately wants.
On the other hand Blagojevich and Obama share the good graces of Emil Jones the Dem president of the Ill State Senate and a chief power broker in Chicago south side politics. From what I understand, it was Jones who spiffed up Barry’s resume by letting BO take credit for those bills he says he go passed while here in Illinois.
Larry,
Can you get any info to Hillary campaign. I had an idea today. If you heard Bush talk today, he was talking about the oil in the Anwar Province and we need to drill it and get it. And we also need to continue to add to the Strategic Oil Reserves. (Naturally, Bush’s position) How about a position by Hillary that would stop filling the Oil reserves at this point and actually start using the oil by selling it on the open market? That will drive the cost of oil down. Use the money that we sell it for to finance a bail out of people who are losing their homes, and finance an investigation into behavior that caused this. Let’s use the Anwar province as our Strategic Oil Reserves. Don’t drill for it, but just use the reserves there as oue SOR. Imagine, if we used 20% to 30% of the oil in reserves to start to help bail out this country. It is weird to be adding such expensive oil to the SOR. Lets stop that. Break the escalating cost of oil.
Todd Beeton at MyDD quotes Obama from his press conference, “”The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I had come to know over 20 years.” Beeton then observes, “That’s a big problem for someone running on judgment.”
Just said the same thing but not as well. That point should not get lost in all the clamor.
Yeah, I thought Beeton expressed it very succinctly, so I made a point of posting this comment in a few places where Hillary’s supporters congregate.
I don’t think that person yesterday is that far different from God Damn America the weekend after 9/11/01 … and Barack was in church that day.
Sorry … chickens coming home to roost.
Actually, all kidding aside, what invokes the real truth is not the political correctness Obama tried to shower this entire Wright thing by making it an “everyone elses fault” thing with his speech on race.
All one needs do is take a look at Barack’s wife Michelle, there is where the truth lies, free of political spins and dusting under the rug!
Is the next one to go under the bus?
Is she the next one to go under the bus?
Doubt it she isn’t old and could probably kick the crap out of Barack in less than 2 minutes…lol
I think Obama’s memory problems stem from to much “snorting” when he was younger..lol
I have a different take on him throwing Rev. Wright under the bus..I think he would like to put him on a space shuttle and send him to the moon…
While watching Obama speak on live TV, I couldn’t help but think of the high-priced prostitute that actress Jill Ireland played in the Charles Bronson film, “The Mechanic.” She would say anything, and she could say it pretty convincingly, for money. Sadly, it appears that Obama will say anything, perhaps less convincingly now, to get elected.
“Obama will say anything, perhaps less convincingly”
He’s never convinced me.
The current hemorrhage in the Obama campaign represents a human dynamic that’s just barely getting started.
The window of opportunity for Obama to distance from Wright has long since past. If he was going to do it, he could only have succeeded years ago. Distancing today will only be seen in retrospect as a failure of loyalty on Obama’s part. (W)Right or wrong, Obama took Wright’s support when it was useful, then played the Judas card when it was inconvenient.
Ironically, Wright shows a far better sense of loyalty than Obama does. It won’t be long before Obama supporters start asking, ‘if he won’t stand up for his own loyal pastor, why should we expect him to stand up for us’.
The problem with Obama supporters (like the hideous Andrea Mitchell…and I say hideous, not in reference to her looks, but to her heart and soul) is that they will see this as a beautiful plea from a wounded Bambi. We, as Hillary supporters, see the desperation, the lies, the elitist attitude from the dirty Chicago politician. Hopefully, those undecideds in Guam, Indiana, N.C., W.V. and all the upcoming states will see what we saw, too. But the Obama supporters wouldn’t change their minds about him if he murdered someone and left his hat, gloves and fingerprints behind (see O.J. Simpson, 1994).
Eventually, of course, this will all be Hillary’s fault.
I think the fun has just started. This tit-for-tat stuff will soon include Jeremiah detailing conversations he’s had with Oblamelessone.
Ummmmm, fresh-toasted waffle!
The question that needs to be asked of obama now is: Where has your judgment been for the past 1.5 years, or 20 years?
You don’t get a win just because you do what chris matthews and those jackasses tell you to do. And finally, why the hell can’t obama say more than three words at a time without going uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh….
If his judgment (or his attention span) was this bad for the last 20 years, what can we expect for the next four?
Obama should have made a clean break with Wright from the beginning, but of course he
couldn’t because people would start coming forward saying BO had been in the pews. Now
he’s making a break, and I think video will emerge or eye witnesses will come forward to prove
Obama was in church when Rev. Wright was making comments similar to those BO is denouncing.
Obama is in a double-bind.
I like what Jerome Armstrong http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/4/28/163729/032 says:
Obama, having successfully kicked the secular warriors that jumped on board his ‘movement’ to the gutter by embracing Fox, probably will follow up by doing some sort of ultra-distancing of Wright– the kind I said he should have done right at the beginning of this whole fiasco. I imagine the “former pastor” becomes the “disavowed former pastor” and maybe even “former church.”
The thing is, Obama is doing this with the conclusion in mind that he’s got it all sewn up. He doesn’t.
I think he is doing this because some internal numbers that he is losing voters fast. That has to be his source of anger since statements like this have been out there for a long time and he had a long time to do what he did today.
Bottomline, is that Obama is spending all his time explaining his bad judgment: Wright, Rezko, and Ayers.
Well, based on that, he’s still got two huge problems looming.
WTF are Coward and the gang thinking?
I look at Barack and hear “I’m Melting!”
Who would have thought a good little girl like you, HILLARY, could destroy my beautiful wickedness?! ARRRRRGH! I’m gone! I’m gone! I’m going!…ARRRRRGH! — YOU CURSED BRAT! LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE! I’m MELTING! Melting! Oh — what a world, what a world!
Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft has a live blog up of the Obama Q&A about Rev. Wright. She adds:
It will be interesting to see what Wright comes back with after Obama’s finished throwing him under the bus.
This is the kind of comment that I am always having to protect Hillary from. People have the conception in my part of North Carolina that all Hillary supporters are unintelligent and inarticulate. The just reiterate whatever someone else says and then say some yeah! cliche line after it. This comes across as being drones. This person needs to learn to speak for themselves or just be quiet. There are arguments for Hillary that don’t depend on rote regurgitation. In sum: don’t be as stupid as this person! She should just Shut the f#@k up!
Blue State Girl?
We’ve had our disagreements, but BSG is very articulate, very intelligent.
Perhaps I’m misreading?
Uncle Wright knows he’s been disrespected. It’s a family feud.
Let’s go to the video tape!
Sharpton is the key here….He and Wright basically accused Barry of suckin up to the CRACKER MAN…..Sharpton gave an out for AA pols to back out.
Hope they do!
Obama just kicked Rev. Wright to the curb for using him to get some face time. I’d be pissed too. Makes no difference, YOU, Hillary and McCain will make it all about Rev. Wright = Obama/Osama blah, blah, blah. Y’all a bunch of Gomers. Tell me, how does Rev. Wright plan on getting these fucking gas prices down.
WE did not force Obama to sit in his church or any of the negative Obama crap WE are constantly being blamed for. The wolf crying is pathetic. Wright is Obama’s albatross not OURS.
I’m not making it all about Wright. Frankly, as objectionable as I find Wright to be, he’s the one of Obama’s associates that frightens me least. Rezko, Ayers, Auchi, the Daley machine — they’re all much more dangerous to the country than Wright and much more indicative of the complete lack of judgment Obama exhibits.
And as for Obama kicking Wright to the curb — he wishes. That old Marine can take Obama, verbally and physically, with one hand tied behind his back and half his mouth taped shut. I’m doubting Obama makes it to the next round.
Well if you had ever bothered to listen to Hillary you would have heard her ideas and SPECIFIC PLANS for bringing gas prices down… SEVERAL weeks ago!!!
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I don’t think we have heard the last from Rev Wright. I bet he comes back and blasts Obama because he lied.
Great an endless pissing contest between too idiots. Popcorn anyone?
I think it’s an exit strategy…Sharpton is in the fray…..
Who gives them the audience?
Sharpton has an easier time getting cameras to come … but the media has obviously goaded Barry into taking a step that he would just as soon not have taken …. so they will not (except maybe Fox) go running when Wright snaps his fingers …
I must respectfully disagree about the media. This is their true area of expertise; not so good on real issues like the economy or foreign policy, but they’ll cover every minute of this like it’s a catfight between Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears. They’ll be on Wright’s next utterance like my dog on a snausage.
I think that Obama is being found out for the user he is. This is what happens when you don’t have an inner moral compass. He’s a grifter.
Wait, my pastor said what? Are you kidding? Well, that is it, I am personally insulted, and it’s not good for my campaign so…I am not talking to him much until after I get drummed out of the election process in the next few weeks.
Obama, Paraphrased:
Well what is Michelle to do with the ICEBERG sized chip on her shoulder now?
This whole thing was staged to make Wright go away and I think that Wright made himself look even nuttier than he really is to get Obama elected. But I will not vote for him PERIOD!
If Americans can form opinions regarding Wright in 4 days, how can we ever believe that Obama never heard those same themes in his sermons?
And Wright has a close affiliation with Farrakhan. And Obama was close to Rezko.
Come on!!
Obama is lying!
His campaign waited until internal polling reflected that this was hurting Obama so he had to lie.
This guy was never properly vetted because the far left activist wanted to prove its strength and effectivness in using the internet to swiftboat any negative press. Ok. You guys proved how influential you are.
But you are doing America a great disservice if you continue to stand by this guy. You picked the wrong one; admit it and get behind Hillary NOW!
Obama is weak!
Obama and Michele are extremist!
He cannot beat McCain!
Super Delegates need to understand that white working class voters, women, older voters and other people NOW understand what a colossal mistake it has been in supporting this joker.
Go Hillary!!
Susan-your comment really gets to the heart of the matter. The left wing guerilla nuts are trying to take control of the party by duping them with Obama, who is merely a tool in their political tactics. It’s doubly sad that minorities-women, blacks, gays and lesbians, are being so devalued and discounted after so many years of working in the Democratic Party in hopes of being heard. Obama is an empty suit, and will be a disaster if elected. Shame on Howard Dean and his crowd for allowing this to happen. And to think that they have thrown over someone of Hillary Clinton’s stature due to pressure from these ill-motivated scoundrels is criminal.
Obama got 20 minutes of uninterrupetd free time on the cable news channels. It will be Obama all day and George’s presser this morning is gone like a fart in the wind.
In reply to albi Hillary has said several times in the last week that the Bush should stop filling the national oil reserves with the price of oil at an all time high and they are 97% full. She also said that some of the oil reserves should be released right now. I agree.
bush’s presser was a fart in the wind. I was unfortunate enough to have to listen to it.
I think these people need to vanish so we can have an election without their ridiculous, incestuous, religious, ultra-left wing escapades. Before long if they both don’t shut the hell up, we are going to have more civil unrest.
No self respecting alien would go within a parsec of Wright.
Boy oh boy! I don’t think he wants a war with Jeremiah Wright! lol I think Hillary must have a fairy-godmother because we are all about to get our wish. If this keeps up, and I suspect it will, Wright, in order to prove Obama WRONG, will be releasing those tapes that we all have to know exist of Obama having a good old time in the sanctuary during one of the sermons that the “Golden Boy” now finds so “appalling”. lmao Boy this is about to get really fun!
Sing it with me, all together now: “The wheels on the bus are coming off, coming off, coming off……..”
“Fairy-godmother” you say! RACIST!!!!!
There are racists in every corner lurking so sayest the wolf criers.
That’s not racist, that’s homophobic.
no?
Barbara Kellerman, from Harvard Business School - This may be too little, too late.
Oh trust, it’s too late. He’s been attending that damn church for 20 years and now all of a sudden he’s “appalled”? lmao What he is is a-phony!
Of course this tit-for-tat between Wright and the baby Jesus could be some form of misguided plan that will totally blow up in their faces. Popcorn anyone?
Yes. I’d like extra butter on mine.
Oh what a dog and pony show!
Of course, Obama didn’t pick my fantasy theory #2 that I posted yesterday where he dropped out.
He picked door #1. And now Rev Wright is under the bus with his ‘typical’ white grandmother and the array of other people that are under there as Obama claws his way to become POTUS.
The minister goes on this high profile interview press tour, culminating at the National Press Club and then on CUE Obama distances himself from Wright.
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Sorry, but I don’t buy it. Too staged. Looks very well planned. Strategic even. What took Wright so long to get mad? If he was just going to diss Obama, that should have happened a couple of weeks ago.
No. This is planned to recusitate Obama’s campaign. Wright waits, how many Primaries before his world wind press tour? They’re still ‘buds.’ Covertly. No one knows someone for 20 years and doesn’t see this side of them. He called him an ‘uncle’ for crying out loud. That implies a degree of intimacy. How many of you call your pastor an uncle?
This is designed to diminish the opinions of people who still dwell on Rev Wright now that Obama has distanced himself. The ball is in your court.
So following the lead of a poster here named PamFlorida on another thread, I will now make up my LONG LIST of reasons why I don’t support Barack Obama that don’t include Rev Wright. Trust me the list grows longer by the miniute.
Mimi, I too thought that this was planned, but I.Don’t.KNOW!!! I’m now thinking that maybe Wright really is pissed. Have you seen that photo of BHO on CNN’s homepage? He looks S-T-R-E-S-S-E-D. Besides, even if he it is all staged, who is really going to buy it? I think even his own supporters are getting disgusted with this “dog and pony show”.
Obama is being SQUEEEEEEEEEZED by Pastor Wright and Rev. Sharpton.
It cannot be pretty….
Do you think they are selling many “historic race speech dvd’s” today?
The growing list non-Wright reasons to oppose Obama is much more persuasive than all this huff-and-puffery. List away, Mimi.
Someone needs to put together a montage of film clips of Obama flip-flopping on his positions towards the Reverend Wright.
Take one clip where Obama refused to distance himself from Wright and another clip from today where Obama throws Wright under the bus.
Larry,
Why did both Obama and Wright make it a point to say he was not his mentor, he was his pastor. Liar!
Maybe we can find this letter dated Feb. 5, 2007 ??!
http://777denny.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/obamas-mentor-racist-reverend-wright-is-back/
“For 20 years, Rev. Wright has been a ‘friend, mentor and pastor.’ This is how Sen. Obama described him in a letter dated February 5, 2007.
**Link**
For 20 years, Rev. Wright has been a “friend, mentor and pastor.” This is how Sen. Obama described him in a letter dated February 5, 2007.
In that letter, the senator wrote “I constantly remember Rev. Wright as the shepherd who guided me to my commitment to Christ one Sunday morning at Trinity. I often consider, as I work in the Senate how he lives his life-a life of service to Trinity, Chicago and the nation; his activism on behalf of causes that few would champion and his dogged commitment to the first principles of love for God and fellow man. And in my personal walk, I seek daily to imitate his faith.”
Barry’s campaign has HUGE issues with keeping all of their fingers in the holes:
This is still up on barakobama.com:
OBAMA IS A PRACTICING CHRISTIAN
Obama Has Been A Member Of Trinity United Church Of Christ For Twenty Years. Monroe Anderson stands up for Reverend Wright’s ministry, “For the past two decades, Barack Obama has been a faithful member of the congregation at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ.” [Chicago Sun-Times, Monroe Anderson, 3/25/07]
Obama Was Baptized And Attends Church Once a Week When He is Able. In the Audacity of Hope, Obama wrote, “I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized.” In 2004, he “attend[ed] the 11 a.m. Sunday service at Trinity in the Brainerd neighborhood every week — or at least as many weeks as he is able. His pastor, Wright, has become a close confidant.” When asked about his decision to be baptized, Obama said “Kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side of Chicago, I felt I heard God’s spirit beckoning me,” he said of his walk down the aisle of the Trinity United Church of Christ. “I submitted myself to his will and dedicated myself to discovering his truth.” [Audacity of Hope, p.208, Chicago Sun Times, 4/5/04; AP 6/28/06]
Here is the video for Larry’s last paragraph
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8_122s82Cco
Obama describes Wright as ‘the guy who counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader.’ “I got to give a special shout-out to my pastor. The guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader, not just in Chicago but all throughout the country. So please, everybody, give an extraordinary welcome to my pastor, Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr.” [Obama remarks, Hampton University, June 2007; video]
Has anyone actually read the full transcript of the NPC event with Wright (a former US Marine and US Navy Corpsman on LBJ’s medical team)? This is so not about Obama but nonsense masking as news generating big ratings for big-business media. I’ve posted here before that I think Obama and Clinton make up one of the two faces (Dems/Reps) of the one party we have here in this country. That we think two political parties makes for competition is nuts. To me, a lot of folks in the establishment-Clinton camp have a lot invested in the old bat: future political appointments await the wealthy backers, subterranean positions in the bureaucracy await the minor-players.
These candidates are playing to that small percentage of America that represents most of the wealth and power of this country. A sort of political disparity is at work here akin to the income disparity that is beginning to split the country.
How ’bout if we look at some issues that matter: economics or maybe Cheney’s recent claim that the US Congress has no authority over him re: torture. Article I seems to indicate otherwise. Or how ’bout that McCain’s wife has all the cash, jets, accounts, etc. Johnny boy is living large off that old bat.
Bring back Brittany Spears!!!
I saw the full video on C-Span of Wright at NPC. He is Obama’s problem because he acts as a character witness for Obama who is touting his judgment as the one thing that makes him different from Clinton and McCain. Obama is not running on issues — he is running on himself without giving us enough information about who he is. We have to rely on everything that tells us about this man who wants to lead one of the most powerful countries in the world. Wright is telling us something about this man, whether you like it or not. Frankly your rant is pointless and lacks the seriousness in giving your vote to the right person. The right person right now is someone who can win against McCain. Obama with all the chinks in his armor looks like the losing candidate right now, and that is scary to many of us.
too cosmic a view. like saying there is only one mafia.
“there’s a rat in the hole, and they won’t let him get away”
That’s from a song called ” Rat in the Hole” by Robbie McIntosh.
I think about it when I read about Wright, and Rezko, and “mafias.”
A great comment from TalkLeft (there sure is a lot of Koolaide over there, but this person apparently likes something a little different).
Andre said: This a really bad move on so many levels. First and foremost, the American people don’t want to be cast as referees between a candidate and his reverend, when they’re looking for someone to work for them. Additionally, this could cost him the NC primary, I mean the Reverend got a standing ovation of 4000 people at the NAACP. As I said in the past, “yea, he’ll make a speech and everything will be fine” only there’s a time not to speak. It just goes to emphasize his total arrogance in that he assumes to ask the American electorate to referee this thing. If anybody has any doubts, he’s toast. His career is finished.”
I left out the part about him still possibly getting the nomination. He won’t after all this ridiculousness.
If he sat there for 20 years and did not know what was going on and also gave $20K plus to a cause that he had not thoroughly investigated, then how does he have the intelligence and judgment to be President? I think it was Newt Gingrich who asked, (and I hate to quote him) “Just how much would pass over his head in the first few months in office?” I think we all know nothing passed over his head. He is just so full of himself that he thinks he can pull off this fiasco and we are all drining the koolaid.
In my mind the worst part of all of this is that the True believers (The Cultists) will swallow Obama’s bullshit statement hook, line and sinker. And I believe that many in the DNC will as well. Not to mention James Bill Clinton is a racist Clyburn and his ilk.
SUSA: Obama only up FIVE POINTS in North Carolina!!:
NEW SUSA poll
If he loses North Carolina — which is possible — this race will be over very shortly.
That’s only the 27th number. Give it a few days….
Gasp! Say it isn’t true! Barry would do or say ANYTHING to win??? But…but…but I thought that’s what he said about Hillary!
Poor Barry. A rock and a hard place. Did you catch his press conference? TIck off the NC blacks and lose. Tick off the blue collar Indiana white hicks and lose. Poor poor Barry. Whatever will he do? I know! Piss them BOTH off. Well done Barry! You are everything I thought you were.
“Barry would do or say ANYTHING to win?”
That’s the problem with his sudden disapproval of
Wright — it comes off as completely political.
Like Sergeant Schultz of Hogan’s Hero’s,
Barry “saw nothing, heard nothing, knew nothing” about his favorite uncle Jerry’s paranoid anti-American rants.
Thank you … I could hear schultzie ….
Wright is angry and hurt(I kind of don’t blame him — what Obama is doing is really bad, using him just he does of all other people.) Obama saying those things today will further hurt the good pastor. It will be interesting to see how he handles it. Mediators may silence him for now. But he does not look like the type who would remain silent. He is writing a book, or so I heard which will come out in 3 months. He will go on book tour and then what?
Is there not a Cult of Hillary? Or is it that all who support Hillary are some sort of free-thinkers? Same for McCain and Obama. Here is a Cult question: Do you long to have your picture taken with Hillary, Barak, John or anyone you think is a leader? If yes, then you are a Cultist.
Yes there is a cult and I am their pastor. They have been with me for 20 years!
Let the church say Amen.
Blessings, Rev.. You can say and do anything you want and I won’t be angry. I’m a loyal cultist! I shall follow. I drank the Hillary Kool-Aid.
AMEN and Hallelujah, Reverend Wrong! I’d like to shout out to my peeps, Rock On Hillary!
LOL
No. There is no one that I would do anything for to have my picture taken with … That is rather a stupid question, if you ask me.
I agree, me neither, I never understood the need to be validated by another, in that way.
I understand it could be fun, something to show your Mom, but other than that, no.
Out of the three candidates, she’s simply the best.
If it were to turn out she was as corrupt as Obama, (and she is NOT) I would work to expose her too, using the freedom of the Internet.
This question insults everyone supporting Hillary Clinton. I can only speak for myself and admittedly have supported her from the outset, but I now regard her as the only person left in the race who has the intelligence and experience to deal with the problems the country is facing and the willingness to do the hard work needed to solve them. I have not in the past agreed with everything she has done, and I’m sure I will not in the future. She is only a person — I do not want my picture taken with her, I do not have pictures of her up in my house, and I do not genuflect to a little statue of Hillary; but I do long to see her in the White House.
Don’t need to sell. Seek out Malcolm X at the Oxford, UK, Debate Union in 1964. Or even Huey Newton on Firing Line when being conservative and liberal meant you actually could think.
Saw the tail end of the news conference. From what I saw Obama is still not fessing up to the truth. Massaging the truth only creates more lies.
Meanwhile, two more supers came out for Obama today
Hillary is how many delegates behind?
How many bombs did the Weather Underground set?
How many people without electricity or health care went unheard by their State Senator Barack Obama during the sub-zero Chicago winters?
These delegates were decided (purchased) long ago, and are saved for rainy days, such as this one, for Obama.
And as mentioned yesterday, no doubt money was involved, making it harder to back out.
Imagine committing to Obama, before the Wright fiasco plays out.
My goodness, what happens when Al Sharpton jumps in?
There is a lot of ego here to control, and things don’t always go as planned…
She’s one America hating pastor behind. She can stay on topic and not lose news cycles to spin. She doesn’t look out of control of her campaign, unable to finish it and have the American voters (and superdelegates) wonder what the next shoe ready to drop is. Superdelegates can change their minds. You may recall the woman in the Dakotas who the campaign announced and then had to withdraw the announcement? He’s not much better than a sofa or refrigerator at this point. They can still take him back.
How do Super Delegates choose a candidate? They choose the BEST candidate and THAT would be the one who can actually beat McCain…..Hillary Clinton. Pledged Delegates mean NOTHING.
Here’s that “mentor” mention again:
http://bobmccarty.com/2008/04/24/obama-i-seek-daily-to-imitate-his-faith/
The two paragraphs below account for only 114 of the nearly 1,000 words Rev. Barbara Reynolds stitched together and published a month ago in a Louisiana Weekly column, America Needs Jeremiah Wrights. Together, they speak volumes about true relationship between Barack Obama and his pastor for more than two decades at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago:
For 20 years, Rev. Wright has been a “friend, mentor and pastor.” This is how Sen. Obama described him in a letter dated February 5, 2007.
In that letter, the senator wrote “I constantly remember Rev. Wright as the shepherd who guided me to my commitment to Christ one Sunday morning at Trinity. I often consider, as I work in the Senate how he lives his life-a life of service to Trinity, Chicago and the nation; his activism on behalf of causes that few would champion and his dogged commitment to the first principles of love for God and fellow man. And in my personal walk, I seek daily to imitate his faith.”
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20080324g
Here it is again, go about half way down to “Pastor Jeremiah Wright”
By Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Reynolds
Reynolds News Service
http://reynoldsworldnews.blogspot.com/
If he thought Uncle Jeremiah was pissed off before, LOL…OMG, I hate to see what Uncle Jeremiah will have to say now! I have a feeling that yesterday was just a taste of what Uncle may have in store for Mr. Hope.
NOW Mr. Hope denounces what the man has said? NOW he’s angry? That wouldn’t be because of his poll numbers…do ya think? Bwahahahahahahahaha!
And apparently Wright’s got three more speaking gigs lined up before Indiana and N.C. vote on May 6. See ya at the polls!
Here’s an interesting bit of news. The woman sitting next to Wright and whispering in his ear before his speech at the National Press Club was Barbara Reynolds, a Howard University School of Divinity teacher and a strong AA Hillary supporter. Here’s a bit of the story as seen at New York Daily News:
On a blog linked to her Web site- http://www.reynoldsnews.com- Reynolds said in a February post: “My vote for Hillary in the Maryland primary was my way of saying thank you” to Clinton and her husband for the successes of Bill Clinton’s presidency.
The same post criticized Obama’s “Audacity of Hope” theme: “Hope by definition is not based on facts,” wrote Reynolds. It is an emotional expectation. Things hoped for may or may not come. But help based on experience trumps hope every time.”
In another blog entry, Reynolds gives an ever-sharper critique of Obama: “It is a sad testimony that to protect his credentials as a unifier above the fray, the senator is fueling the media characterization that Rev. Dr. Wright is some retiring old uncle in the church basement.”
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6asmlp
John McCain will be among this elderly group if the USA is nutty enough to elect the old geezer.
THE WORLD’S 10 OLDEST LEADERS
ROBERT MUGABE, 84, president of Zimbabwe, 28 years in power
KING ABDULLAH , 84, king of Saudi Arabia, 12 years in power
GIRIJA PRASAD KOIRALA, 83, prime minister of Nepal, two current years in power
ABDOULAYE WADE, 81, president of Senegal, eight years in power
HOSNI MUBARAK, 79, president of Egypt, 26 years in power
SHEIKH SABAH AL AHMAD AL SABAH, 78, emir of Kuwait, five years in power
RAUL CASTRO, 76, president of Cuba, two years in power, including unofficially
MWAI KIBAKI, 76, president of Kenya, five years in power
MANMOHAN SINGH, 75, prime minister of India, four years in power
THAN SHWE, 75, chair of Burma’s military junta, 16 years in power
JOHN MCCAIN, 76, president of the United States, 3 years thinking he’s in power.
Obama did today what he had to do. The problem is too little too late. Because in his “race-speech” he made so many excuses about his mentor, whatever he said today pales in comparison.
Again, as I said yesterday, I don’t really care about the politics at this moment, or the campaigns. What I care about is the white/black anger as a result of Wright (and therefore Obama) b.s.
This is what happens as a result of the senior Democratic leadership promoting an untested, inexperienced candidate with no relevant experience. Rev Wright was useful to Obama in his Illinois political life. It’s another story on the national scene. Mr Kerry, Mr Kennedy, Mr Dodd, and the Democratic money bags like George Soros should have foreseen this.
Obama had the sense to turn away talk of a presidential bid after he was first elected to the US Senate. That would be the reaction of any normal person.
But someone talked him into flying in the face of common sense and running for US President on no record of any significant accomplishment of any kind…except what some people think are his oratorical skills and, despite the fact that his prior experience was as a local community organizer, his self-described superior judgement in foreign affairs. To me that self-assessment translates to he is a willing puppet in the hands of George Soros, John Kerry, and who knows what other self-styled saviors of mankind.
What a bunch of dolts. That is nicest word I can think of. I hope they recover their senses and nominate a person with both feet on the ground and HER head tightly screwed on.
As for the media, they are hypocrites extraordinaire. Rev Wright got that part right.
Very well stated Mercedes!
The very same senior leadership that keeps Bob Shrum in limousines.
Weather Underground blew themselves up in Greenwich Village. I think a few WU members died. After that a number of police cars, some offices, an FBI office too, I think, were blasted by the WU. None died besides WU members themselves. They are better known as the Vandal Underground.
So because they TRIED to kill people and failed, that makes them okay? That just makes them inept attempted murderers. Gee, too bad for us they only killed themselves, then we could have been justified in our disdain for them. Okay, I guess that means it’s okay for Barack to have been involved with William Ayers since it’s not like his plans for murder actually succeeded.
attempting to blow up federal buildings and kill people, and conspiring to do so, normally gets you life without parole. unless, of course, your daddy’s the ceo of con ed and gets his very high priced lawyers to get you off on a technicality. in any case, not going to federal prison for life just because you’re rich (and not terribly competent at bomb-making) doesn’t exactly make you a quality friend for a presidential candidate.
what, obama has good judgment? oh, i forgot.
Let’s see Larry… when this all broke, you said Obama had to distance himself from Wright and denounce what he said.
He did that… but then you said that wasn’t forceful enough.
Now that he’s “thrown Wright under the bus” you criticize him for it…
Why not just be honest and say that it doesn’t matter what Obama says you’re going to criticize him for it. Why prolong the histrionics over this whole thing… Wright is doing it for you.
Obama said today that Pastor Wrights Comments yesterday were “A Bunch of Rants that Aren’t Grounded in Truth”…
Sounds alot like that Obama Troll Kevin..but Hey, its a Job, Right Kevin..???
Kevin, this room is a mess. I thought you said you were cleaning up.
I’m not sure he’s criticizing him so much as just laughing at the inept way Obama is performing the task. So far Wright’s way ahead in points, and Obama is looking kind of wobbly.
What’s the deal with the experience quotient?
Bill Clinton was the governor of a backwater state. Jimmy Carter was a governor. John Kennedy was a senator. Bush II was a governor.
Who is ever prepared for the US Presidency? If experience is the quality we all seek then why not vote in someone who is a retired Flag rank officer (Jim Jones, USMC for example, former SACEUR CG) who sits on 10 corporate boards, speaks French fluently, has political creds all over the spectrum, fought in Vietnam (didn’t get captured or shot down), has a degree from Georgetown, etc. Now there is someone with experience.
That should be the standard and if it is that type of experience that we really seek, we would not vote for anyone of the troika seeking the presidency.
And who is going to notice our opting out?
John Stanton: What a ridiculous and pointless comment…
For this past couple of weeks, I have not been able to think of Obama as anything other than Barry the Finger Flipper. His lack of common decency was appalling. Now I see that he uses very poor judgement, indeed, and lies when he’s called on it.
Better get used to calling him Barry the Dem Nominee. Two more supers came out for him today! That is a net of seven since the Pennsylvania primary. Scoreboard!
I’m hoping that Hillary will get the remaining 300.
back to scoreboard again, are we? are we that juvenile or just that unaware of how juvenile that comes across?
re supers - everyone with any sense knows he releases the info on previously-committed supers on days when he needs some pr help.
and everyone with any sense knows that supers can and likely will change their minds when it’s in their own political interests.
jumping off the sinking obama ship will soon become the newest form of recreation. some will swim, some will drown. it will be fun to watch either way. i view it as the sport to watch once one’s favorite nba team is out of the playoffs. i bet your team is already out.
Obama sure did not look convincing when he was making his little speech about dumping Wright after this sudden awakening that Wright was radical, Wright got his number and knew Obama was going to dump him, he explained that quiet well that a couple of days ago.
Obama just turned his back on a whole lot of blacks that were supporting him for his stance with Wright, Wright has not waived in his views on racial issues weather we agree with him or not Wright is pushing his cause and a lot of blacks admire him for that.
For Obama now for the sake of the nomination come and kick Wright to the curb is not going to sit well with some AA, they will say Obama just sold out, he is drifting from his message and is more interested in the white vote to win rather than the AA 97% vote that gave him the push to be where he is today.
Maybe that is why Wright was on Obama’s case he knew he was flaky and will say anything to win, Obama even if he has to will distance his self from the very people that gave him the edge, I will wait to see what the black community take on this new distancing of Wright will be, but am sure their are going to be a few very disappointed AA after this.
Jack Cafferty is asking if people think this will hurt BO’s campaign. Anyone wanting to post can go to http://preview.tinyurl.com/6rv2gu.
I wrote:
Obama is toast. He sat in that church for 20 years, knew exactly what this man was about, and now he expects us to believe it’s all news to him? He is insulting the entire country, and especially those that supported him. He should step down now for the good of the country, and work out his problems on his own time.
HIs bigger problem is that it’s not the first time he’s changed his identity. He’s still introducing himself and without a long record to know where he stands not knowing where he stands will be the GE hurdle. But I guess Donna Brazile has jumped ship and she has told the supers to vote for the one that can best beat McCain, so the rumor is she’s switched to Hillary. I think he’ll probably take a few days to think things over and then drop out, admit he wasn’t as ready to take on McCain as he’d thought and that he’ll go back to the senate and do some more seasoning, the old fashioned way. I think he’s a decent man and that he’ll do the decent thing and admit that he can’t make his old associates go along with his story line, and he has to really distance and really define himself before he decides to run again.
In Obama’s first book and spoken aloud by him in his audio version, was about the black value system and how he read the pamphlet about it.
On Page 284, he talks about it and he called the Black Value System “a sensible heart-felt list.”
How can this man deny knowing how radical Reverend Wright was? Ridiculous!
A few thoughts . . .
Wright showed that, far from being in allegiance with Obama, he is obviously out to hurt him. Why? Probably the same reason Obama inspire such anger among the Hill-bots and Bill “I did not have sexual relations” Clinton: Obama is of a new age and rejects what they stand for, be it the self-reverence, the victimology, the nutty conspiracy theories (AIDS in a test tube created by . . . who . . . the “vast right wing conspiracy”?), or the unbridled anger. I mean . . . when was the last time you saw Obama acreaming at some one or cursing? Hill and Bill do that three times before breakfast!
Another thing . . . Obama had his “man behind the curtain” experience with Wright. He now sees the feet of clay that all men have. Wright was something of a father figure, and to have a father figure stab you in the back as you are reaching a seemingly unattainable goal . . . sad.
Third . . . for all of those nutty right denizens and their increasingly co-alligned Hillbots who think Obama is lying about hearing similar sermons by Wright, care to offer up any evidence. Or are you willing to just rely on your factually baseless suspicions?
Finally . . . did you see what I saw today? Two more supers came out for Obama, one in Iowa and one in Kentucky. Something about that man being in trouble, and the way he handles himself, that makes supers want to line up with him, I guess . . . .
Yawn.
*smack smack* yawn
Is it morning? I smell toast.
Dude,
How young are you? For starters, I think you meant to write, “in league with” as opposed to “in allegiance with”. Please explain what Wright said yesterday that was different from what Wright has said on tape in the past. If anything, he was less offensive and spoke more calmly yesterday. How bad is Barack’s judgment that he couldn’t figure this out eight weeks ago? Pretty bad son.
oh so that! are the talking points they gave you today. so weak. tell them to come up with better things tomorrow.
Obama lied in that speech, he now claims he has only known Wright since 1992, yet in his book he claims to have taken Wright tapes to Harvard as motivation while there, and Obama was at Harvard from 1988 to 1991!
When will the guy ever speak the truth?
Your chronology is way off. He met Obama back in the 80s. He may have officially joined the church in 1992 when he came back to Chicago, but his book mentions meeting him well before that.
Dinner’s ready, son! Your favourite! Baked crow! And please get that toilet off the front lawn before you come in!
Sorry but Barry is such a fool. This is what happens when politicians are told to run before they can crawl. Reach for the stars and fall flat on your sorry arse.
Oh, yeah! Let an “experienced” First Ladies Tea attendee grab the nomination from the guy who won more votes in more states and got more delegates, too. And that WON’T make us the laughing stock of Western democracies!
No, on the other hand…you would.
You talking about the same guy who is saying Michigan and Florida mean nothing, the guy who pledged he would not campaign there, yet he did with advertising!
Excuses for a typical politician with no experience only greed feeding his inflated ego is the last thing needed in Washington right now!
Obama’s Uncle Jeremiah Wright looks more and more like Uncle Fester every day.
Lets keep it all in perspective, none of this is as bad as that mean ole racist Geraldine Feraro and of course nasty racist Bill Clinton. (joking of course) wow … what next!
RISE HILLARY RISE
Larry, this
is simply: BRILLANT
Obama needs to go on vacation with Alberto Gonzalez pronto!!
This string is interesting.
No one here has defined “experience” for the office of the US presidency. I did above. Let’s get people who have combined military, corporate and elite university experience–and who are endorsed by Dems/Reps alike–to run and, why not, just take political office. Looking at it all this way Hillary was just a wife and mom who was dumb enough to stay with her husband, Obama is a corrupt “black man” from Chicago (go figure), and John McCain is a stalwart of honesty, straight shooter and is completely reliant on his wife’s fortune. Oh wait! Where have we heard that before? Kerry per chance.
There are zero arguments here with depth. My fav is “let’s put a montage together” of Obama’s screw ups. No, wait! perhaps we should put some clippings together from the Washington Post (an educational corp) and the NYT (bleeding subscribers) in bit and byte form showing all the stinking presidential candidates are nuts.
We fight this mode of thinking everyday in high school (I’m a teacher of military and diplomacy). It should be about Country over Agency and Party. And with the Net, not one soul needs big media. OSI out there makes it so easy–and frightening–to know that most people don’t read, think or search for information. More’s the pity, those who we follow as leaders know this. They rely on the stupidity of an American populace that believes what’s on the MSM no matter Obama, Clinton, McCain. It’s sad, so sad. From my perspective–and what’s important to me in this election–is that the National Security Policy of the US will not change in the face of Climate Change, the proliferation of civilian nuclear power plant construction, energy and food security issues, debt, recession, infrastructure problems, etc. And here we are–me one of the people at my fav NQ site to be able to rant and rave thans to LJ and S–wasting so many words on silliness.
Obama and Wright are super-egoistics.
The winner: Wright & the WHINER: OBAMA
Mr. Wright, thanks for enlightening us and we, who know you, just less than 2 months ago, already understand your strong “feelings”, which you eloquently expressed,with gesture, to my beautiful America.Obama is not lucky to not know you well, after all he & his family just mingled & embraced you for 20 years.However, due to those 20 years of nurturing him as his “uncle”, some of your traits are showing in him.His arrogance of wanting to be hired to rule the country you have a very strong “feelings”, is surely an act of disobedience to you. No wonder you mentioned this weekend that you will be after him one of this days.We will save you the trouble & we will just show him the way back to your “church” for more “sermons”.WH is not his to handle.Lots of problems & for sure,he’ll whine.Take him back, sir.
So, Brother Johnson, you CIA guys really believe in coincidence?
Everyone in the Hillary camp as well as the media are salivating about this story. Hells bells, this whole goddamn blog is positively awash in Shadenfreunde.
But why did Wright really come out of the deep dark place the Obama camp disappeared him to and instantly hit the big screen in a full-tilt boogie of media extravaganza? Just for giggles? I’m beginning to smell a rat.
Obama obviously hadn’t put the Wright story to bed with his high-minded speech last March. The GOP media and blogs were running Wright and it was obvious that it was not going to stop until November 4. So, what to do?
Exit, stage right to the Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland two reeler of the 30’s but instead of “Hey, why don’t we put on a show!?!”, insert “Unleash the Wright Firestorm”.
Obama gets to give Wright the Sister Souljia slapdown. Obama gets 20 minutes of free air time in which he does not have to debate Clinton. White America thus placated. What’s not to like?
So, any takers?
THIS IS HUGE NEWS… REVEREND WRIGHT FLASHED THE “FRAT BROTHER SIGN” INDICATING THAT HE IS DOING THIS AS A PLOY TO HELP OBAMA GET ELECTED.
What was put to the test the past couple of days?
1-Judgement
2-Experience
3-Ability
4-Patriotism
5-Uniter
In the actions over the past few days, Obama failed everything he claims to be bring to Washington.
His experience in handling this mess gets a failing grade, since it never was settled by his speech of March 18th, it simply fuelled the fires more.
His judgement was right when he asked Wright to not participate in his campaign, but it was way to little and far to late after a 20 year association! How enraged would the Black community be if they found out a candidate who was running for POTUS weeks before announcing was a member of the KKK, never actually participating in the linchings and the violence, but attended every KKK rally?
Obama’s ability to defuse this took over night polls to convince him to finally denounce, well almost denounce as his words contained the words “may change” his relationship with Wright going forward, but the damage created along the way is deep to many and his two performances on this matter was filled with lies and contradictions to the point that Obama showed he was walking on eggshells in doing so, and that is only done when someone is hidding a lot more than they are telling!
Obama’s Patriotism was at stake, it was a month ago as well, and Obama then turned it into everyone elses fault and not his, till the polls indicated otherwise, then he does what a POTUS needs to do on Day 1 not on day 50+, this is a true sign that Obama has a real misunderstanding of what Patriotism is all about against all enemies of the US of A, foriegn and domestic!
Obama’s ability he claims to be as a Uniter has failed miserably during this entire fiasco, his divide he caused in the country is becoming deeper with each passing day, not only between Dem’s and GOP’s, but in the Democratic Party itself. This divide is caused by true Patriots digging in deeper behind a candidate who places country and its people first in action and in issues that are hurting the country today and those who want to grasp onto words of a candidate who uses their dreams and hopes against them to seek self promotion for himsef only!
[...] Uncle Jeremiah Wright was Right (by Larry Johnson at No Quarter) Boy did Reverend Wright call it correctly the other day. He indicated that Barack is the kind of guy who will say politically what needs to be said regardless of what he believes. Well, Barack proved him right. Two months ago he had never heard Wright say anything objectionable in 20 years. Now, apparently, in the last eight weeks, aliens have taken over the body and mind of Wright and he is saying things he has never said before. Right? Wrong. [...]
This is an excerpt from savagepolitics.com
You need to read the whole thing, it’s great.
Nobody in the Mainstream Media pointed out that Obama’s “divorce” speech was riddled with selfish concern, by particularly emphasizing the idea that Wright was not “thinking of me nor my campaign”, terms that obviously underscore that his repudiation is being done out of political expediency and not out of honest “indignation”. I didn’t hear any point out that Obama had already responded to Wright’s media tour, the day before yesterday, in a ‘nonchalant’ manner, and that he simply decided to aggressively react to them ONLY when the polls showed that he was being hurt by them.